Biography
Julia LaChica is a Japanese/Filipino multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, and educator based in Oakland, CA. Her practice encompasses storytelling through painting, printmaking, collage, and assemblage, exploring themes of identity and culture. In addition to her studio work, Julia leads printmaking workshops that foster creative expression and community building, using art as a powerful tool for dialogue, healing, and empowerment.
Artist Statement
My paintings and visual constructions reveal the multilayered ways personal memory, collective experience, and cultural history take on material form. In my work, I consciously create a sense of an intimate archive that reaches across time by integrating found objects, distressed elements, and aged materials. Through these processes, I aim to reveal how corrosion, rust, and wear accumulate on bodies and surfaces over time.
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EDUCATION
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design
JURIED SHOWS
2025 Museum of Northern California Art, Family Portraits, Chico, CA
2024 Kitsune Community Studio, We Are Present, Artists with Asian Roots, Halfmoon Bay, CA
2023 Arc Gallery, Portal, San Francisco, CA
2023 Arc Gallery, Black & White, San Francisco, CA
2023 Museum of Northern California Art, Deconstruct/Reconstruct, Chico, CA
2022 ArtPush, East Bay Artists 2022, Alameda, CA
2022 NIU Art Gallery, Stories From My Childhood, DeKalb, IL
2022 Arc Gallery, Voyage, San Francisco, CA
2021 ArtPush, East Bay Artists 2021, Alameda, CA
2020 Museum of Northern California Art, Selfie, Chico, CA
2020 ArtPush, East Bay Artists 2020, Alameda, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2025 The Drawing Room SF, San Francisco on Paper, San Francisco, CA
2024 Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany Print & Zine Fest: Artist Market, Albany, CA
2024 Richmond Council Chambers, Made Here, Richmond, CA
2024 Drawing Room SF, Food Chain, San Francisco, CA
2024 Richmond Art Center, Home Show, Richmond, CA
2024 Arc Gallery, The 6000 Circle Project, San Francisco, CA
2024 Arc Gallery, 48 Pillars 2024, San Francisco, CA
2024 The Drawing Room Annex, Home, San Francisco, CA
2024 The Drawing Room Annex, Women Rising, San Francisco, CA
2023 Studio 23, 8th Annual Black Light Art Show, Alameda, CA
2023 Voss Gallery, Refusés Of The Bay, San Francisco, CA
2023 Four Chicken Gallery, Salon des Refusés, San Francisco, CA
2023 Black Cultural Zone, Mo’ Roots Fest, Oakland, CA
2023 Studio 23, East Bay Artist’s Exhibit, Alameda, CA
2023 Irreverent Art Gallery, Goats, Daly City, CA
2022 National Japanese American Historical Society, We Are LGBTQIA Nikkei, San Francisco, CA
2022 K Gallery, In partnership with the Alameda Education Foundation, Art Changes, Alameda, CA
2022 Black Cultural Zone, Mó Roots Fest, Oakland, CA
2020 CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, Creative Citizens in Action, San Francisco, CA
2020 Museum of Craft and Design, Let’s Face It: Global Community Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 California College of the Arts, Holding Pattern, San Francisco, CA
2011 Manilatown Heritage Foundation, [b*longing] Solo Exhibit, San Francisco, CA
2003 Brandon Artists Guild, A Really, Really Pig Show, Brandon, VT
1997 Rockridge Library, CCA Arthematics, Exploring Mathematics in Art, Oakland, CA
1996 California College of the Arts, Years of Injustice, Installation & Performance, San Francisco, CA
1996 California College of the Arts, Visual Dynamics, Oakland, CA
1996 Off Center Gallery, Girl Art/Boy Art, Berkeley, CA
1996 Off Center Gallery, When Is A Box More Than A Box, Berkeley, CA
1995 Studio 24, La Virgen de Guadalupe, San Francisco, CA
1995 Collision Gallery, Mission Sole, San Francisco, CA
1995 Galería de la Raza, Amor-O-Rama, Celebration of San Valentín, San Francisco, CA
1994 Cooper White & Cooper, Cultural Expressions, San Francisco, CA
1989 Sargent Johnson Gallery, Dynamics of Color, Works on Racism, San Francisco, CA
1988 Artists Television Access, Brazen Hussies, San Francisco, CA
1987 San Francisco State University, Mixed Media Group Show, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2024 East Bay Express, Home is Where Art Is, Richmond, CA
2022 Nichi Bei, Exhibit ‘promotes accepting’ Queer Nikkei in S.F.’s JA community, San Francisco, CA
1996 Conmoción, Illustrations, International Quarterly, El Paso, TX
1991 Out/Look Magazine, Assemblage Art, Queer Quarterly, San Francisco, CA
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Asian American Woman Artist Association